Parents Charged To Train Children On Safeguard Policies Against Sexual Abuse

Parents and guardians have been charged to train their children on safeguard policy on their private parts to prevent them from being sexually abuse by pedophiles in order to save them from childhood's emotional and psychological problems.

Head of Lyceum Schools, Mrs Moureen Ola-Williams, stated this at the 12th Anniversary and Graduation Ceremony of the school themed" Global Reach Within Local Realities" held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta the Ogun State capital.

Ola-Williams spoke in the wake of increase in sexual abuses witness in private and public schools where teachers and other workers in the schools, including people in the neighborhood were found guilty of sexually molesting children 

She insisted that parents and guardians must set boundaries for their children on adults opposite sex they get closer to particularly in the neighborhood and be careful of allowing strangers coming closer to them.

The Educationist also warned them to always monitor what their children do on the internet and social media with communication gadgets such as phones, iPad, computer, to mention few, so as to prevent them from engaging in illicit sites that could espouse them to sexual abuse and endangered their lives 

She said the school had already engaged the children in safeguard training to knowing their body parts in order to protect them from sexual abusers, saying that the school teachers were discipline and wouldn't tolerate any abuse of the children in any form.

"The parents should learn to teach the children safeguarding policies about their body parts, they need to be trained to be able to identified these bad people, they should not mix up with strangers and join bad group and they need to get closer to God."

"We are in the generation were kids are espoused to some many technologies especially on the internet, they are espoused to phones, Social media. It starts from home what role are you playing as a parent, as a mother or father, you don't espoused those children to Social media and you think that they will not be abused or get into danger." 

"We run a Montessori where every child is respected, every child is valued and every child is appreciated, such abuse not happened and we don't be tolerate such here, it has never happened and it will never happened in Lyceum Schools." She added

Earlier, the Chairman of the Schools, Dr. Yinka Ola-Williams urged governments to set up policies and procedures that would hinder abuse to thrive in the society, insisting that school authorities should set clear boundaries between teachers and children.

He said " Even in advanced countries such things happen. It is to set up policies and procedures. There is nothing you can do about deviant. What you can do is to create environment that will not allow that trait to function

"You know when school closed you shut down the school, you don't allow children stay without other students and teachers. In our college those are some of the policies that we have. Teachers should have boundaries in interacting with students, once this is done it may reduce it. So you can set Policies and create system that will not allow sexual abuses to thrive." he added.